艺术
Art should elevate the soul, not merely amuse the senses.
Nature is to be followed, but only when it is refined by art.
The rules of art are not arbitrary; they are founded in reason and in the nature of things.
The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it belongs to the reader as much as to the writer.
Literature is the art of giving form to the formless.
The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.
Literature is the art of turning chaos into order, and then questioning that order.
The novel is the art of making the invisible visible.
Literature is the art of giving voice to the unspeakable.
The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it requires only a reader.
The novel is the art of the possible impossible.
Literature is the most subversive of all arts because it works in secret, in the reader’s mind.
Literature is the art of turning pain into beauty.
The novel is the art of making the impossible believable.
The novel is the art of the unfinished, the unresolved.
Literature is the art of making the invisible visible.
The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.
Literature is the art of giving form to chaos.